Pharma-Sponsored Medical Ghostwriting
Pharma Marketing News surveyed readers to determine if medical journal articles sponsored and ghostwritten by drug companies are a legitimate part of marketing to physicians and to get opinions on various other issues raised in the press about ghostwriting.
What If There Were No Rules in Pharma Marketing?
What If There Were No Rules in Pharma Marketing? There's no FDA, no DDMAC, no FTC. Your company guidelines and rules don't exist and your regulatory and legal teams have been disbanded. It's a free-for-all and there are no rules. The question is: what would you do?
Pharma Marketing News Vol. 8, #8
Welcome to the September 2009 issue of Pharma Marketing News.
Full BOEHR(inger) Social Media Reporting of RELY Trial Results
Boehringer Ingelheim (BI's) -- the German pharmaceutical company -- has just completed the first-ever full bore social media campaign touting the results of its...
Twitter for Brands: Beyond Marketing
Yesterday, I posted one simple idea: pharmaceutical company employment of Twitter to notify patients about drug recalls, counterfeit drugs, or drug safety warnings (see...
Twitter and Drug Safety: A Paramount Concern
There's a lot of talk about Twitter and how pharmaceutical companies should or should not use Twitter. Most of this focuses on using Twitter...
Will Alli Soon Be the Only FDA-UNapproved OTC Drug?
Alli has long been promoted as the "only FDA-approved over-the-counter weight loss aid." Soon, however, alli may be known as the "only FDA-UNapproved over-the-counter...
No FDA Regulations Would Be Like Driving on a Highway Without Speed Limits
My friend Jonathan Richman asks an interesting question on his blog: "What If There Were No Rules in Pharma Marketing?"“What If There Were No...
Pharma, Freedom of Speech, and Ad Agencies
"Freedom of Speech" is a "right" that many commercial entities claim when defending advertising practices. The pharmaceutical industry, for example, has cited their first...
Senator Grassley Sees Pharma Ghost Writing Problems. Do You?
The New York Times recently reported (see here): "A growing body of evidence suggests that doctors at some of the nation's top medical schools...













